The Quest for Healthy Savings and a Healthy Lifestyle

Budgets: When The Wheels Fall Off

It’s been quite the week. We went to the grocery store EIGHT times! The reason for the craziness has been illness. It went something like: Kid gets a cold, Parent 1 then gets a cold; kid develops horrendous GI virus a few days later (middle of the night, of course) while Parent 1 now has painful cough. Parent 2 then gets horrendous GI virus, but worse than Kid!

It’s been a week of buying Pedialyte, Kleenex — anywhere, any price — and overpriced bottles of 7-Up at the check out because of fatigue. It was too far to walk the whole store!

It’s rare for me to do laundry outside time-of-use-rates, but all bets are off this week.

One small victory, and I mean very small… I made rhubarb muffins from last year’s rhubarb. I also won a really neat picnic bag and two pounds of Starbucks “limited edition” coffee during teacher appreciation week.

My other accomplishment this week was decluttering some of the English home magazines I tend to not want to let go of. My mom is going to England soon so maybe a fresh supply will come my way. It was a good feeling to take care of a pile while I was keeping sick people company on the couch.

I hope we are through our rough patch and next week will be easier. I plan to come up with some mild, light dinners for the coming week to ease everyone back into eating, and our Flylady zone is the Kitchen for next week. With a little luck, we can get our grocery shopping back to normal!

Yuck, but the scenario of running to the store multiple times (and to one close) sounds very familiar. Toss in a lot of take out dinners too since I was too weak to cook once we were feeling like eating. I hope everyone is back to 100% quickly!